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# README.mipsboot Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> 2004/07/19
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The mips/SGI boot support allows you to create a bootable CD which
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will work with big-endian mips SGI machines, for example bootable
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installation media.
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The method used for this is the same as in genisovh, a tool to make
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CDs bootable for Linux on SGI.
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The SGI firmware reads the first 512-byte "sector" off a disk and
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parses information from a volume descriptor header in that sector. The
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information in question is the location (start sector) and length of
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bootable kernel images; up to 15 are supported.
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The firmware will load and execute kernels listed. (I'm not sure what
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it will do if more than one kernel is listed - it may display a boot
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menu).
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To use the SGI boot support code in genisoimage, simply specify the kernel
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file locations (relative to the CD root) as follows:
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genisoimage ... -mips-boot <kernel file #1> \
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...
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-mips-boot <kernel file #n> \
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-o mips.iso mips-files
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